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"There were lots of empty tables for two but he insisted they were fully booked."

Suspecting there was more to it the pair, who are of British-Bangladeshi and British-Pakistani descent, decided to investigate further.

After leaving, Rajina and her friend decided to phone the restaurant using a "white accent" to try and book a table.

"I phoned the restaurant to see if I could get a table if I put on a white-sounding voice.

"Straight away, the woman on the phone said they had tables free and we should come within five minutes."

Furious with their treatment, Rahman then challenged the woman as to why he was refused a table just minutes earlier and asked if it was to do with his race.

"She got really flustered and said if we came straight away she would give us one but obviously we said 'well we don't want the table now' and told her that we would be taking it further," Rajina said.

The woman then allegedly hung up.

Rajina took to Twitter to vent about the incident.

She sounded flustered over the phone after he explained that he’ll be making a complaint and she offered a table straight away if we turned up asap. POC will get this: we have this instant gut feeling when we are mistreated because we are POC and this was one of those moments.

We are both quite upset and just sat in the car but this isn’t the first time I have experienced this. My friend’s not taken it too well. We both have tried to not see it from that perspective but my goodness...it hurts. #racism